Stept Studios, with bases of operation in Los Angeles and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has promoted Meredith Rodriguez to chief growth officer. In her new role, Rodriguez will oversee the studios’ growth and expansion efforts across commercial, brand content, entertainment, and innovation. Rodriguez joined Stept four years ago, as head of sales, focused on expanding how Stept worked with brands and agencies, organizing its teams to best support its services across creative, production and post. In addition, Rodriguez built an in-house marketing group that manages Stept’s social and PR presence for its own brands Stept Studios, Lockt Editorial and Vault Rentals. Recently, she created and led the newly formed entertainment division, focused on film and television, leading the financing, and kicking off production for its first feature documentary this month. As chief growth officer, Rodriguez will focus on identifying new growth strategies, expanding the breadth of services Stept offers while maintaining a high level of return clients. She will also continue to lead Stept’s sales, marketing and entertainment divisions….
Los Angeles-based production studio Lord Danger has secured Pop-Arts Management–under the aegis of commercial arts manager Kevin Batten–to handle representation on the West Coast. It marks the first time that Lord Danger has had an independent management firm handle repping duties out West…..
Loop Talent in the U.K. has brought veteran agents Nikki Molloy and Zoe Martin on board and launched a new slate of line producers, production managers and 1st assistant directors, while adding to its already established list of intimacy coordinators. Molloy and Martin join founder and managing director of Loop Talent, Lucy Price, to further curate its roster of heads of department and crew working in film, high-end television drama, commercials and music videos. The women join agents James Dawson and Daisy Stone (DP, production design, costume, editor, crew manager lists) supported by agent assistant Megan Cotton. Prior to Loop, Molloy and Martin worked in the film and television industry as successful freelancers. Molloy is a 20-year industry veteran, with extensive credits as an assistant director working on a broad range of high-end TV and feature productions (The Personal History of David Copperfield; Goodbye Christopher Robin; Apple TV+’s Trying; and Amazon’s Jack Ryan). Martin, a BAFTA award-winning producer, joined Price earlier in the year as a part-time agent alongside Molloy. In her previous roles at ITV Studios and Channel 4, Martin worked on a variety of shows from development through to production. She produced primetime programs for the networks. The growing slate of talent repped by Loop Talent includes: line producers Alexandra Breede (I Came By, Deadshot); intimacy coordinators Abigail “Abi” Kessel (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Pretty Red Dress), Haley Muraleedharan and Rufai “Roo” Ajala (Screen Star of Tomorrow 2022); 1st AD Sam Roffey (The Golden West) and production managers, Joanna Osborn (Landscapers, Avenue 5, Bridgerton, Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) and Christian Rigg (The Gold, Litvinenko). The new talent stands alongside Loop Talent’s existing roster of DPs production designers, costume designers, make-up artists, editors and military advisers. Notable clients include: DP Jon Muschamp (Dreaming Whilst Black, The Trap); production designer Declan Price (A Bit of Light, Matriarch, Kindling); costume designer Cathy Prior (Derry Girls, Sexy Beast, Stay Close); Emmy-winning hair and make-up designer Frances Hounsom (Magic Mike’s Last Dance, The Rising, The Tattooist of Auschwitz); and editor Galina Chakarova (Rain Dogs, Grime Kids)….
